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Google has yet again dodged a potentially business-splitting antitrust ruling, and gets to keep its ad-tech business intact after escaping the Department of Justice's push for a court-ordered breakup. Google does not need to sell off its advertising business, court finds A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department's attempt to force Google to sell off major pieces of its advertising technology business. This spares the company from the most severe remedies suggested after it was found guilty of holding an illegal monopoly on the digital advertising market. That doesn't mean there won't be corrective measures. The court announced that it has accepted most of the proposed behavioral remedies intended to curb the anticompetitive conduct. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
More than 150 million driver's license scans were up for purchase on the dark web, highlighting the risk you take every time you hand over your physical ID. Digital IDs could potentially limit some data breaches, but not until adoption becomes near universal Recently, a dark web platform known as Nexus claimed to be selling more than 153 million driver's license scans. In addition to the driver's licenses, there were more than 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents and international IDs, and over 579,000 medical cards. KrebsOnSecurity was alerted to the existence of the dark web site on August 31. Upon visiting the site, KrebsOnSecurity found the 153 million figure plausible; a blank search in Nexus returned 11.5 million pages of results, with 15 results per page. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Adobe has come up with another way to make generative AI unavoidable, with its new Slack integration allowing workers to create prompts from the communications tool. Adobe is now usable in Slack. - Image Credit: Adobe As a productivity suite, Adobe has been hard at work making sure that everyone knows you can use it with AI. In its bid to make it as impossible to ignore as possible, it's now infiltrated Slack. Launched on Wednesday , Adobe for Slack is an integration for the business communications app. As you would expect, it's a way for Slack users to start making images and documents directly from the messaging tool. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
In a growing number of states, now including Oklahoma, you can add your ID to Apple Wallet . Here's how to add them, how they work, where they are, what the limitations are, and what they can do. A digital driver's license in the Apple Wallet app We're moving closer and closer to a world where you can ditch your physical wallet. You can already add your credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, tickets and boarding passes, and most recently — your driver's license to Apple Wallet. But the license rollout is not everywhere. This has increased the uncertainty on whether or not your ID can be added and if it can be, where it can be accepted. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
